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Definition of glyph in English:

glyph

noun

‘When they were first discovered, the glyphs in Mud Glyph Cave clearly resembled Southern Cult icons seen in the work of Mississippian peoples in the Southeast.’

‘Basically, it's a series of implosions with glowing glyphs or runes.’

‘She took it lovingly, handling it so carefully, and read over the glyphs, the language of magic, several times.’

‘Schulman interprets the glyph as two Crescents of Soul interconnected via a Cross of Matter.’

‘What they could not have known was that each of the defensive glyphs and runes had been designed to fail in a specific way, directing the explosive fury of the failing magical matrix outward, away from the Royal Hall.’

‘The author renders the word tradition into a signifier of doubtful intentions, a glyph whose meaning has yet to be ascertained.’

‘Because there are more than 4700 known glyphs - including almost 800 basic ones, of which some 400 are considered common - this has always been a lengthy and laborious task.’

‘Carefully consulting the book, he scrawled various glyphs and runes at certain points in the design.’

‘The mat is charged with odd symbols and glyphs arranged in a circle between two concentric rings.’

‘It especially rules women, as indicated by the glyph, which is the universal symbol for womankind.’

‘The glyph for Neptune is the symbol of a trident, which stands for rulership over the sea.’

‘And there's this text, just sitting there, and it's clear as day, so distinct from the glyphs we've seen even at 100 B.C.’

‘He summoned the energies not just through the focus he wore about his neck, but also through the glyphs and foci embedded in the excessive number of protective wards he had placed around the balcony and tower.’

‘As she did so, she noticed the glyph that decorated the center of the cross guard.’

‘Hence the Celtic designs on Irish crosses that closely resembled Druidic glyphs or Haitian Voodoo rituals that fuse the worship of Catholic saints with that of African Loas.’

‘I even spent an afternoon studying a book devoted to drawings of various Goddess symbols and glyphs found on ancient artifacts.’

‘‘Apartment 1004,’ she said, reading the Hebrew glyphs.’

‘In addition to the pure luxury of the items in the tent, and the canvas itself, everything in the room crawled with magic symbols and glyphs.’

‘Deciphering writing systems, whether the Etruscan alphabet or Zapotec glyphs, is comparable in complexity to cracking the genetic code.’

‘Glowing glyphs appeared on the edges, in some archaic, unknown language.’

‘It was understood that a large percentage of the glyphs on any given Maya monument were dates - dates, moreover, that placed each object within an elaborate and incredibly precise series of calendrical cycles.’

‘Mayan examples are identified by glyphs and attributes, and are understood to represent specific subjects.’

‘Maya tombs might bear directional glyphs on walls corresponding to each of the cardinal directions, as on the walls of Rio Azul Tomb 12, a royal or very elite burial from the fifth century CE.’

‘To make the glyphs, the ancient carvers used chisels, probably of hard, fine-grained quartzite, which they struck with hammers of stone or antler, each blow chipping out one small stone flake.’

‘But until recently, when linguists like David Kelley were able to translate Mayan glyphs, we knew very little about the Mayans.’

‘As the breakthrough of recent years in the decipherment of Mayan glyphs reminds us, there are secrets in the ‘new-found’ land of America still to be unearthed.’

‘An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.’

‘Now showing with Liverpool Street Gallery, Watkins' canvases are arrayed around the room like blocky Mayan glyphs done in colour combinations that take years to master.’

‘As my creativity tends to burble out chaotically, I've been trying to regulate my study, however, I've only really had any success with the Mayan calendar glyphs.’

1.2Computing A small graphic symbol.

‘To get around them, senders have resorted to representing these words using other characters and punctuation as glyphs to create letter and word shapes that our smart eyes and brains can discern, but stupid junk mail filters can't.’

‘In April 1997, Xerox said that Palm, then owned by US Robotics, had infringed that patent when it released Graffiti, a series of ‘shorthand’ symbols drawn instead of real character glyphs.’